Maryland · Nonprofit
CHRISTOPHER P GARDNER FOUNDATI
CHRISTOPHER P GARDNER FOUNDATI (Maryland) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $855,308 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL UNION OF ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS ($425,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CHRISTOPHER P GARDNER FOUNDATI has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,529 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,529 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Food and Commercial Workers International Unionshared funders
- Ussga Memorial Fund Incportfolio match
- Apple Federal Credit Union Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of CHRISTOPHER P GARDNER FOUNDATI’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $60k → $133k.
3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CHRISTOPHER P GARDNER FOUNDATI’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CHRISTOPHER P GARDNER FOUNDATI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHRISTOPHER P GARDNER FOUNDATI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 42% · 2020 67% · 2021 27% · 2022 38% · 2023 56% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of CHRISTOPHER P GARDNER FOUNDATI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 28% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
67% of CHRISTOPHER P GARDNER FOUNDATI's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $53k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 18 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Food and Commercial Workers International Unionshared fundersDC · backs 34 organizations that share your funders
- Ussga Memorial Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Apple Federal Credit Union Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brownell Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bohnert Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Chief Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Haseley Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Durotech Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phillip K Dupre Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wm Craig and Teneen L Dobbs Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cadence Giving Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Association of Community Collegesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CHRISTOPHER P GARDNER FOUNDATI
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHRISTOPHER P GARDNER FOUNDATI: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER P GARDNER FOUNDATI?
- CHRISTOPHER P GARDNER FOUNDATI (Maryland) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $855,308 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL UNION OF ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS ($425,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHRISTOPHER P GARDNER FOUNDATI have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $855,308 in grants to CHRISTOPHER P GARDNER FOUNDATI, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHRISTOPHER P GARDNER FOUNDATI?
- INTERNATIONAL UNION OF ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS is the largest funder on record, with $425,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHRISTOPHER P GARDNER FOUNDATI find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing